Curation is traditionally defined as “The act of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts”. Curators are knowledgeable about their domain and offer additional value by collecting and presenting information in ways that informs the audience.

Describing curation Rohit Bhargava says – “a content curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online”. The operative word in his description is continually. In the real-time world of the Internet, this is critical.”

Curation is the DNA of Journalism. In a post in Open School for Journalism, curation is defined as: Collection of potential content from different writers, creative talents, and resources, such as online materials or journalists in the field Analysis of the content to determine most ethical and accurate representation of the subject matter Publication and dissemination of that content to readers, viewers or listeners